[Buildroot] preserve toolchain

[Marcus Osdoba <marcus.osdoba@googlemail.com>]

  Am 14.09.2010 20:45, schrieb Grant Edwards:
> On 2010-09-14, Marcus Osdoba<marcus.osdoba@googlemail.com>  wrote:
>
>> For a shorter development cycle I like to preserve the toolchain
>> generated by buildroot for the next run.
> I used to try to do that, and had many problems with it.  As a result,
> I switched to using crosstool-ng to build the toolchain.
>
>> I naivly copied the output/toolchain to some other directory and set
>> the toolchain directory in the buildroot config. The bin-directory
>> does not include the gcc-binaries. Do I have to create links in the
>> bin-directory to the gccs?
>>
>> Is it possible to take the same toolchain for package build the next
>> time?
> I managed to do it, but it required a number of customizations to the
> external toolchain makefile, and there were still some minor issues
> that required work-arounds in a shell-script that I was using to do
> builds.  I eventually gave up and heeded the advice of the
> maintainers: now I use crosstool-ng to build my external toolchain.
>
>> Can I recycle the toolchain generated by buildroot?
> Using crosstool-ng to build an external toolchain is the normal way of
> accomplishing what you want to accomplish.
>
Many thanks for this clear statement and field report! This saved much 
time for me.